A brain region that processes sight and sound simultaneously in monkeys could hold the key to explaining how ventriloquists create the illusion that their puppets can speak.
It was recently pointed out on one of the news programs that one of the reasons that so much water was being released through Buford Dam was so that the mussels in Apalachicola Bay, Florida would not be harmed.
Time after time, properly conducted scientific studies have proved that homeopathic remedies work no better than simple placebos. So why do so many sensible people swear by them?
Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why part of the seafloor near the southwest coast of Japan is particularly good at generating devastating tsunamis.
In a lab dish, E. coli can do something neo-Darwinian theory says just can not be. According to this view, all change in a genome-all change in a string of genes-- is random. To survive, each genetic change has to give the selfish members of a species an edge. Yet when E. coli are given a food their metabolism can't digest, salicin, they engineer their genome into a form that disables them. They take a big step backward. Why?
Men should be interested in this; certain species of cichlids have developed a gene that makes females suck sperm into their mouths. Yep, something that human men would love.
You may not know it, but you're part virus. At least, some of your genes come from viruses that slipped their DNA into the genes of our primate ancestors millions of years ago.
On Thursday Microsoft released Windows Live OneCare 2.0. The software had been in beta since July. Windows Live OneCare costs $49.95 for a one-year subscription, covering up to three PCs. The main new feature of this release is OneCare Circle, which links PCs together over a wireless connection. It enables them to all be managed from a single place.
New research shows that women suffering from Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD), a condition marked by unprovoked, intrusive and persistent sensations of genital arousal that are unrelieved by one or several orgasms, are likely to experience a variety of associated psychological conditions.
For years, research on fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic mental illness, has suffered from an inadequate mouse model. But Israeli researchers unveiled an improved model that uses human embryonic stem cells to track the mechanism at the root of the disorder, which affects one in 4,000 boys and one in 6,000 girls.
